[Akechi tilts his head and takes another sip of water, the look on his face a sort of you're asking me?]
Able to fight.
[He knows that's not what Ren's worried about, but that's Akechi's assessment. He doesn't really care how upset they are with the breaking of their false worlds and their collective betrayal of Ren. They came back to fight beside them when things were at their most difficult. In a way, he owes them.
More than that, he owes Ren a better answer than that. He sighs impatiently and shakes his head.]
I can't speak for all of them, but I can tell you that Okumura-san's perfect world had her father by her side, and Futaba-chan her mother.
[Another careful sip of water. It's dangerous, letting Ren think about the people who did come back from the dead, so he adds with a note of finality,] Once they broke themselves free of that wretched man's influence, they once again returned to their proper states. The fact that they were able to do so is either a testament to them, or to what you said to them. I wasn't privy to that myself.
[Two people Akechi had killed, literally come back to life. He stares into his water glass, then forces himself to meet Ren's eyes, searching for a hint of condemnation or anger.]
no subject
Able to fight.
[He knows that's not what Ren's worried about, but that's Akechi's assessment. He doesn't really care how upset they are with the breaking of their false worlds and their collective betrayal of Ren. They came back to fight beside them when things were at their most difficult. In a way, he owes them.
More than that, he owes Ren a better answer than that. He sighs impatiently and shakes his head.]
I can't speak for all of them, but I can tell you that Okumura-san's perfect world had her father by her side, and Futaba-chan her mother.
[Another careful sip of water. It's dangerous, letting Ren think about the people who did come back from the dead, so he adds with a note of finality,] Once they broke themselves free of that wretched man's influence, they once again returned to their proper states. The fact that they were able to do so is either a testament to them, or to what you said to them. I wasn't privy to that myself.
[Two people Akechi had killed, literally come back to life. He stares into his water glass, then forces himself to meet Ren's eyes, searching for a hint of condemnation or anger.]